Taylor Hackford

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  An Officer and a Gentleman

  Taylor Hackford

  PUBLISHED May 10, 2007

  My long ago remembrance of this film’s mediocrity proved incorrect; it’s a simple but effective melodrama made with more oomph than the gen...

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  Ray

  Taylor Hackford

  PUBLISHED Feb 1, 2005

  Do biopics ever generate good movies or are they simply paint-by-numbers movie-making exercises? Though dramatically facile and shallow as...

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  Ray

  Taylor Hackford

  PUBLISHED Nov 1, 2004

  It's a rarity to encounter Oscar buzz in September, yet the name Jamie Foxx is on the lips of many due to his breakout role as blind and in...